Most days I feel like an acrobat high above a crowd out of which my own parents, my in-laws, potential employers, phantoms of "oth...er women who do it" and a thousand faceless eyes stare up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Some of the things ... sound like things our grandmothers would have told us: "Men will be boys. We let them play their little gam...es with each other. We know it isn't about the important things, but they think so. So we let them. We take care of them so that they can go on playing...." What grandma did not tell us is that men are capable of something altogether different.... But even though men are untapped wells of potential, they will not move forward if women continue to subsidize the status quo.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Much of what contrives to create critical moments in parenting stems from a fundamental misunderstanding as to what the child is c...apable of at any given age. If a parent misjudges a child's limitations as well as his own abilities, the potential exists for unreasonable expectations, frustration, disappointment and an unrealistic belief that what the child really needs is to be punished.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

... solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive cou...nsels and comforts, we get under no other condition ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

One learns quite easily to identify the rich person who is making a career out of dangling the carrot; of being fawned on by insti...tutions eager for his (or, more often, her) money. It is not very productive to "cultivate" them. I associated with many, and developed great compassion for rich people who suspect that they are in demand only because they are a potential source of income to some cause or institution. Whether it's true or not, their suspicions isolate them from all save a handful of old and trusted friends, turn them sour, make it difficult for them to accept new friends at face value, and leave them with little attraction other than their money.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

There is a very important and fundamental relation between learning and personality development. . . . The two interact in a "circ...ular process." Thus, mastery of symbol systems (letters, words, numbers), reasoning, judging, problem-solving, acquiring and organizing information and all such intellectual functions are fed by and feed into varied aspects of the personality--feelings about oneself, identity, potential for relatedness, autonomy, creativity, and integration.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Humanity has passed through a long history of one-sidedness and of a social condition that has always contained the potential of d...estruction, despite its creative achievements in technology. The great project of our time must be to open the other eye: to see all-sidedly and wholly, to heal and transcend the cleavage between humanity and nature that came with early wisdom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »